How Credit-Card Data Went Out Wireless Door
May 4th, 2007
The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn. There,...
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Lenders Misusing Student Database – Improper Searches Raise Privacy Fears
April 15th, 2007
Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on tens of millions of student borrowers have repeatedly searched it...
UPMC apologizes for posting private patient information
April 12th, 2007
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was trying to figure out how private information for about 80 patients, including names and Social Security numbers...
Data Theft Grows To Biggest Ever – Fraudulent Purchases Pop Up in Breach Of 45.7 Million Shoppers’ Records
March 30th, 2007
At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from customers in the United States, Britain and Canada were stolen over a period of...
Authorized privacy breaches are biggest threat
March 23rd, 2007
In regard to Todd Sloane’s article Privacy could be IT standards’ deal-breaker: There are two kinds of privacy concerns–liability to patients from unauthorized access...
Hospital not liable for employee’s disclosure of PHI
March 23rd, 2007
A patient could not recover from a hospital on a theory of vicarious liability after a hospital employee divulged the patient’s test results to...
Trends in Identity Theft
February 15th, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its Annual List of Top Consumer Complaints. This year–for the seventh year in a row–Identity Theft is...
States Want Congress to Act on Identity Theft, Data Security
November 1st, 2005
Forty-six state Attorneys General are calling on Congress to help protect consumers from identity theft by enacting national security breach and credit freeze legislation....
Databases Called Lax With Personal Information
February 25th, 2005
The Social Security numbers of millions of Americans, including Vice President Cheney and celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, are available to many subscribers of a...
Student newspaper finds gaping security loopholes in a Harvard web site
February 6th, 2005
Harvard’s student newspaper, The Crimson, found massive security problems in Harvard’s web site, including the ability to look up prescription records, medical records, and...